Historical theme, bronze age. Players are in charge of Minoan clans (Minoans are deemed as the first european civilization), fighting for the Minos (king) title. Build cities, monuments and other structures, open new trade routes, expand and fight off barbarians out of your land, plan your actions with your clan council, research and issue decrees so your actions will be more powerful than your opponents! You have only 4 rounds to prove you are worthy of the legendary Minos title.

Draft and assign the dice to the programming board in player order until each player has assigned 4 dice. With lower value dice you can secure stronger actions. The higher-value dice will help you climb on the tracks (if you choose the correct values and colors) but it can be pushed down by others and your action can become weaker this way. After all players assign the dice, you can climb on the tracks gaining instant or income benefits for each step.

During the action phase each player will be taking their dice in order from highest to lowest and performing the pre-planned actions. If they have decrees (cards in tableau) connected to the specific action or die value they can immediately use it to make the action more powerful.

Why do you absolutely need it?

Established designer, easy to learn, hard to master
Make actions stronger with tableau building
Historical theme – play as the first european civilization!
Variability/replayability – different abilities and different actions boosted from the start of the game; city foundations and barbarians setup randomly; different trade routes to discover with bonus tokens randomly assigned; you will not create the same tableau twice!

Basic information:

Players: 1-4
Playtime: 90-150 min
Age: 14+
Designer: Stan Kordonskiy
Artists: Hazem Ameen, Kristina Gehrmann Barbosa, Guilherme Oliveira, Zbigniew Umgelter, Katarzyna Witos